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Show "THE IltON TRAIL." Just now the bookstores are crowding their windows with the new Rex Beach book called "Tho Iron Trail." And it is worth reading. Of course it is a story of Alaska. That is tho Rex Beach habitat, so far as his bust literary work is concornod. And, as becomes a story of that mighty region, it deals with mighty material. Torrential rivers, hurricanes and glaciers are his familiars a littlo loo familiar, H maybe, for effectiveness. One who novor has H seen earth's Titans will miss the moral of Mr. H Beach's descriptions except that of tho storm H which carried away tho Kyak broakwater. M Glaciors are almost beyond description, Thoy VJ lend themselves with indifforenoo to tho uses of H even a Rex Beach romance. H Of course there is a lovo story, and it is a H very pretty oven if a vory puzzling one. You H never know who tho horo is going to marry. H But tho big thing in "Tho Iron Trail" is its H exposition of conditions in Alaska, and the H government's singularly repressive attitude to- mm ward that land of limitless resources. Because M it tells tho truth about conservation as applied H on ground where there still is something worth B consorving, the book should bo in tho hands of H every Amorioan reader. It is a text book of H tho truth, an exposition of a national blunder KVJ and a right interesting romance .as well. 1 |